diff --git a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
index e1fec3d7a8..1e7e6a82d5 100644
--- a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
@@ -1412,33 +1412,22 @@
ID:PATHID:VALUE
- Pass a credential to the container. These two options correspond to the
+ Pass a credential to the container. These two options correspond to the
LoadCredential= and SetCredential= settings in unit files. See
systemd.exec5 for
details about these concepts, as well as the syntax of the option's arguments.
- Note:
+ Note: when systemd-nspawn runs as systemd system service it can propagate
+ the credentials it received via LoadCredential=/SetCredential=
+ to the container payload. A systemd service manager running as PID 1 in the container can further
+ propagate them to the services it itself starts. It is thus possible to easily propagate credentials
+ from a parent service manager to a container manager service and from there into its payload. This
+ can even be done recursively.
-
- When systemd-nspawn runs as systemd system service it can make
- use and propagate credentials it received via
- LoadCredential=/SetCredential= to the container
- payload.
-
- A systemd service manager running as PID 1 in the container can make use of
- credentials passed in this way, and propagate them further to services it itself
- runs.
-
-
- Thus it is possible to easily propagate credentials from a host service manager to a
- systemd-nspawn service and from there into its payload and services running within
- it.
-
- In order to embed binary data into
- the credential data for use C-style escaping
- (i.e. \n to embed a newline, or \x00 to embed a NUL byte. Note
- that the invoking shell might already apply unescaping once, hence this might require double
- escaping!).
+ In order to embed binary data into the credential data for
+ use C-style escaping (i.e. \n to embed a newline, or \x00 to
+ embed a NUL byte. Note that the invoking shell might already apply unescaping
+ once, hence this might require double escaping!).
diff --git a/src/core/execute.c b/src/core/execute.c
index 1680fc72a2..f493accf2e 100644
--- a/src/core/execute.c
+++ b/src/core/execute.c
@@ -2429,11 +2429,7 @@ static int write_credential(
return -errno;
if (uid_is_valid(uid) && uid != getuid()) {
-#if HAVE_ACL
- r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, /* read = */ true, /* write = */ false, /* execute = */ false);
-#else
- r = -EOPNOTSUPP;
-#endif
+ r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, ACL_READ);
if (r < 0) {
if (!ERRNO_IS_NOT_SUPPORTED(r) && !ERRNO_IS_PRIVILEGE(r))
return r;
@@ -2549,11 +2545,7 @@ static int acquire_credentials(
* accessible */
if (uid_is_valid(uid) && uid != getuid()) {
-#if HAVE_ACL
- r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(dfd, uid, /* read = */ true, /* write = */ false, /* execute = */ true);
-#else
- r = -EOPNOTSUPP;
-#endif
+ r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(dfd, uid, ACL_READ | ACL_EXECUTE);
if (r < 0) {
if (!ERRNO_IS_NOT_SUPPORTED(r) && !ERRNO_IS_PRIVILEGE(r))
return r;
diff --git a/src/coredump/coredump.c b/src/coredump/coredump.c
index 1c4af5c813..85242f349f 100644
--- a/src/coredump/coredump.c
+++ b/src/coredump/coredump.c
@@ -186,9 +186,9 @@ static int fix_acl(int fd, uid_t uid) {
return 0;
/* Make sure normal users can read (but not write or delete) their own coredumps */
- r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, /* read = */ true, /* write = */ false, /* execute = */ false);
+ r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, ACL_READ);
if (r < 0)
- return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to adjust ACL of coredump: %m");
+ return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to adjust ACL of the coredump: %m");
#endif
return 0;
diff --git a/src/journal/journald-server.c b/src/journal/journald-server.c
index 8a8c41b7a5..6df43085ec 100644
--- a/src/journal/journald-server.c
+++ b/src/journal/journald-server.c
@@ -247,16 +247,15 @@ static bool uid_for_system_journal(uid_t uid) {
}
static void server_add_acls(JournalFile *f, uid_t uid) {
-#if HAVE_ACL
- int r;
-#endif
assert(f);
#if HAVE_ACL
+ int r;
+
if (uid_for_system_journal(uid))
return;
- r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(f->fd, uid, /* read = */ true, /* write = */ false, /* execute = */ false);
+ r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(f->fd, uid, ACL_READ);
if (r < 0)
log_warning_errno(r, "Failed to set ACL on %s, ignoring: %m", f->path);
#endif
diff --git a/src/shared/acl-util.c b/src/shared/acl-util.c
index 02c94f9358..7a2767c37b 100644
--- a/src/shared/acl-util.c
+++ b/src/shared/acl-util.c
@@ -378,12 +378,20 @@ int acls_for_file(const char *path, acl_type_t type, acl_t new, acl_t *acl) {
return 0;
}
+/* POSIX says that ACL_{READ,WRITE,EXECUTE} don't have to be bitmasks. But that is a natural thing to do and
+ * all extant implementations do it. Let's make sure that we fail verbosely in the (imho unlikely) scenario
+ * that we get a new implementation that does not satisfy this. */
+assert_cc(!(ACL_READ & ACL_WRITE));
+assert_cc(!(ACL_WRITE & ACL_EXECUTE));
+assert_cc(!(ACL_EXECUTE & ACL_READ));
+assert_cc((unsigned) ACL_READ == ACL_READ);
+assert_cc((unsigned) ACL_WRITE == ACL_WRITE);
+assert_cc((unsigned) ACL_EXECUTE == ACL_EXECUTE);
+
int fd_add_uid_acl_permission(
int fd,
uid_t uid,
- bool rd,
- bool wr,
- bool ex) {
+ unsigned mask) {
_cleanup_(acl_freep) acl_t acl = NULL;
acl_permset_t permset;
@@ -411,11 +419,11 @@ int fd_add_uid_acl_permission(
if (acl_get_permset(entry, &permset) < 0)
return -errno;
- if (rd && acl_add_perm(permset, ACL_READ) < 0)
+ if ((mask & ACL_READ) && acl_add_perm(permset, ACL_READ) < 0)
return -errno;
- if (wr && acl_add_perm(permset, ACL_WRITE) < 0)
+ if ((mask & ACL_WRITE) && acl_add_perm(permset, ACL_WRITE) < 0)
return -errno;
- if (ex && acl_add_perm(permset, ACL_EXECUTE) < 0)
+ if ((mask & ACL_EXECUTE) && acl_add_perm(permset, ACL_EXECUTE) < 0)
return -errno;
r = calc_acl_mask_if_needed(&acl);
diff --git a/src/shared/acl-util.h b/src/shared/acl-util.h
index ace0fe0955..b6a6f480f8 100644
--- a/src/shared/acl-util.h
+++ b/src/shared/acl-util.h
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ */
#pragma once
-#if HAVE_ACL
+#include
+#include
+#if HAVE_ACL
#include
#include
#include
@@ -15,7 +17,7 @@ int add_base_acls_if_needed(acl_t *acl_p, const char *path);
int acl_search_groups(const char* path, char ***ret_groups);
int parse_acl(const char *text, acl_t *acl_access, acl_t *acl_default, bool want_mask);
int acls_for_file(const char *path, acl_type_t type, acl_t new, acl_t *acl);
-int fd_add_uid_acl_permission(int fd, uid_t uid, bool rd, bool wr, bool ex);
+int fd_add_uid_acl_permission(int fd, uid_t uid, unsigned mask);
/* acl_free takes multiple argument types.
* Multiple cleanup functions are necessary. */
@@ -27,4 +29,12 @@ DEFINE_TRIVIAL_CLEANUP_FUNC(uid_t*, acl_free_uid_tp);
#define acl_free_gid_tp acl_free
DEFINE_TRIVIAL_CLEANUP_FUNC(gid_t*, acl_free_gid_tp);
+#else
+#define ACL_READ 0x04
+#define ACL_WRITE 0x02
+#define ACL_EXECUTE 0x01
+
+static inline int fd_add_uid_acl_permission(int fd, uid_t uid, unsigned mask) {
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
#endif
diff --git a/src/test/test-acl-util.c b/src/test/test-acl-util.c
index 9a3db3c8e3..00c482efed 100644
--- a/src/test/test-acl-util.c
+++ b/src/test/test-acl-util.c
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ static void test_add_acls_for_user(void) {
} else
uid = getuid();
- r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, true, false, false);
- log_info_errno(r, "fd_add_uid_acl_permission(%i, "UID_FMT", true, false, false): %m", fd, uid);
+ r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, ACL_READ);
+ log_info_errno(r, "fd_add_uid_acl_permission(%i, "UID_FMT", ACL_READ): %m", fd, uid);
assert_se(r >= 0);
cmd = strjoina("ls -l ", fn);
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static void test_add_acls_for_user(void) {
/* set the acls again */
- r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, true, false, false);
+ r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, ACL_READ);
assert_se(r >= 0);
cmd = strjoina("ls -l ", fn);